Patents by Inventor Toshiyuki KURABAYASHI

Toshiyuki KURABAYASHI has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11960390
    Abstract: A testing device includes: a first update unit that updates a screen transition diagram that is displayed on a display device and shows a transition of a screen state according to input of an operation on a screen relating to a program to be tested; and a second update unit that divides or integrates a node according to an operation of the node for each screen or each screen state in the screen transition diagram. Thus, the testing device makes it possible to obtain the advantage of exploratory testing while reducing a man-hour to perform the exploratory testing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kirinuki, Haruto Tanno, Toshiyuki Kurabayashi
  • Patent number: 11934808
    Abstract: A screen transition aggregation device includes a calculation unit configured to calculate a degree of similarity between a transition destination screen and a transition source screen in order from an end screen in a screen transition diagram; and a generation unit configured to classify the transition destination screen and the transition source screen into groups based on a comparison between the degree of similarity and a threshold value, and to generate information indicating a transition relationship between the groups. Thus, the ease of grasping the specifications of an application that provides a function by screen transition is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Kurabayashi, Haruto Tanno, Yu Adachi, Hiroyuki Kirinuki, Yu Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 11886328
    Abstract: A test information extraction device improves efficiency in testing applications by including: an obtainment unit that obtains, from a first source code group of an application that implements methods corresponding to requests of a plurality of types received via a network, first information used for generating the requests; and an extraction unit that specifies, from among the methods implemented in response to the requests, a method being a caller of a method included in a second source code group being a part of the first source code group and that further extracts, from the first information, second information used for generating one of the requests corresponding to the specified method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Iwatsuka, Haruto Tanno, Toshiyuki Kurabayashi
  • Publication number: 20230342117
    Abstract: The possibility of a desired program being automatically generated is increased by a program generation device including: a search unit configured to search for a first program that corresponds to a specification written in natural language similar to natural language that describes a specification of a program to be generated, from a set of pairs each constituted by natural language that describes a specification of a program and the program that satisfies syntax of a programing language; and a change unit configured to change the first program to generate a second program that satisfies at least one pair of an input value and an output value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki KURABAYASHI, Hiroyuki KIRINUKI, Yu YOSHIMURA
  • Patent number: 11783116
    Abstract: A similar transition identification device includes: acquisition means for acquiring structure information of a screen related to a Web application and element information indicating constituent elements of the screen; identification means for identifying a similar transition representing screen transitions to other screens displaying contents similar to each other from among screen transitions to one or more other screens capable of being transitioned from the screen related to the Web application, the identification means identifying the similar transition based on the structure information and the element information acquired by the acquisition means; and creation means for executing one or more screen transitions selected from the similar transition identified by the identification means and creating specification information related to transitions between screens of the Web application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yu Yoshimura, Haruto Tanno, Yu Adachi, Hiroyuki Kirinuki, Toshiyuki Kurabayashi
  • Publication number: 20230107200
    Abstract: The possibility of a desired program being automatically generated is increased by a program generation device including: a generation unit configured to generate, by using a plurality of program components, a program that takes a value and a unit of the value as input and outputs a calculation result of the value and a calculation result of the unit by executing a calculation relating to the value and a calculation relating to the unit, which corresponds to the calculation relating to the value; and a change unit configured to change the program to generate a program that satisfies at least one pair of an input value having a unit and an output value having a unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki KURABAYASHI, Hiroyuki KIRINUKI, Yu YOSHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20230089227
    Abstract: The possibility of a desired program being automatically generated is increased by a program generation device including: a storage unit that stores a set of pairs each constituted by a program and natural language that describes a specification of the program; a search unit configured to search for a first program having a structure that is the closest to a structure of a program to be generated, from the set, by inputting natural language that describes a specification of the program to be generated and natural language included in the pairs to a model that has been caused to learn a relationship between natural language describing a specification of a program and similarity of a structure of the program; and a change unit configured to change the first program to generate a second program that satisfies at least one pair of an input value and an output value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki KURABAYASHI, Hiroyuki KIRINUKI, Yu YOSHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20230086862
    Abstract: The possibility of a desired program being automatically generated is increased by a program generation device including: a generation unit configured to generate a first program that satisfies at least one pair of an input value and an output value; and a determination unit configured to randomly generate an input value that satisfies a constraint regarding input and output of the first program, and determine whether or not an output value that is obtained by inputting the input value to the first program satisfies the constraint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki KURABAYASHI, Hiroyuki KIRINUKI, Yu YOSHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20230046961
    Abstract: A program generation apparatus includes a generation unit that inputs a specification of a program to be generated described in natural language into a model trained on a relationship between a specification of a program described in natural language and the program to generate a first program, and a change unit that changes the first program to generate a second program satisfying a set of one or more input values and output values, and thus the possibility of a desired program being automatically generated can be increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki KURABAYASHI, Hiroyuki KIRINUKI
  • Publication number: 20220405196
    Abstract: An operation pattern generation apparatus has a generating unit which generates, with respect to a test script to be used for a web application, operation patterns related to combinations of operation elements that cause a transition between screens of the web application and input data candidates for input elements to be used to input data on the screens, and with respect to the input element of which a default value of input data is set in advance, the generating unit combines only the default value with the operation elements in order to reduce time required for specification restoration of screen transitions of the web application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yu YOSHIMURA, Yu ADACHI, Haruto TANNO, Hiroyuki KIRINUKI, Toshiyuki KURABAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20220374343
    Abstract: A test information extraction device improves efficiency in testing applications by including: an obtainment unit that obtains, from a first source code group of an application that implements methods corresponding to requests of a plurality of types received via a network, first information used for generating the requests; and an extraction unit that specifies, from among the methods implemented in response to the requests, a method being a caller of a method included in a second source code group being a part of the first source code group and that further extracts, from the first information, second information used for generating one of the requests corresponding to the specified method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya IWATSUKA, Haruto TANNO, Toshiyuki KURABAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20220350730
    Abstract: A test data generation device that generates test data to be input into an input field of a test target application includes a storage unit that stores a tacit knowledge test data dictionary including, for each tacit knowledge category, a generation method, test data information, and an input value constraint on an input field to be used as a generation condition, and a generation unit that refers to, regarding a certain tacit knowledge category for a target input field, the tacit knowledge test data dictionary to generate test data for the target input field when an input value constraint of the target input field in the test target application and an input value constraint of a generation condition regarding the tacit knowledge category are determined to match, and not to generate the test data for the target input field when the input value constraint of the target input field and the input value constraint of the generation condition regarding the tacit knowledge category are determined not to match.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yu ADACHI, Haruto TANNO, Yu YOSHIMURA, Hiroyuki KIRINUKI, Toshiyuki KURABAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11481546
    Abstract: A screen discrimination device includes: a determination section which executes an automatic operation of a displayed screen of an application to cause screen transition to occur, and determines whether or not each screen at a transition destination is different from each post-transition screen based on a predetermined method; a reception section which outputs a result of the determination of whether or not each screen at the transition destination is different from each post-transition screen, and receives input of a condition for identifying a screen serving as a correction target based on the result of the determination; and a re-determination section which re-executes the automatic operation of the displayed screen of the application to cause the screen transition to occur, determines whether or not each screen at the transition destination meets the condition and, in a case where a first screen meeting the condition is present, when the post-transition screen includes a second screen meeting the conditio
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Kurabayashi, Haruto Tanno, Muneyoshi Iyama, Hiroyuki Kirinuki
  • Publication number: 20220229767
    Abstract: The test script generation device includes: an identifying unit that identifies a path through a screen specified by a user in a screen transition diagram; and a generation unit that generates a test script based on a combination of a value input to a transition source screen in the generation of the screen transition diagram for a transition included in the path and an operation related to the transition, thereby streamlining a test of application that provides functionality by the screen transition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki KURABAYASHI, Haruto TANNO, Yu ADACHI, Hiroyuki KIRINUKI, Yu YOSHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20220222051
    Abstract: A screen transition aggregation device includes a calculation unit configured to calculate a degree of similarity between a transition destination screen and a transition source screen in order from an end screen in a screen transition diagram; and a generation unit configured to classify the transition destination screen and the transition source screen into groups based on a comparison between the degree of similarity and a threshold value, and to generate information indicating a transition relationship between the groups. Thus, the ease of grasping the specifications of an application that provides a function by screen transition is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki KURABAYASHI, Haruto TANNO, Yu ADACHI, Hiroyuki KIRINUKI, Yu YOSHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20220214963
    Abstract: An analysis apparatus includes: script execution means for executing a script that causes a transition of a screen displayed by a web application, to a reference screen; and analysis means for performing screen transition analysis for the web application, within a boundary that the number of hops for screen transitions from the reference screen is equal to or smaller than a preset upper limit value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yu ADACHI, Haruto TANNO, Hiroyuki KIRINUKI, Yu YOSHIMURA, Toshiyuki KURABAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20220206934
    Abstract: A testing device includes: a first update unit that updates a screen transition diagram that is displayed on a display device and shows a transition of a screen state according to input of an operation on a screen relating to a program to be tested; and a second update unit that divides or integrates a node according to an operation of the node for each screen or each screen state in the screen transition diagram. Thus, the testing device makes it possible to obtain the advantage of exploratory testing while reducing a man-hour to perform the exploratory testing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki KIRINUKI, Haruto TANNO, Toshiyuki KURABAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20220206935
    Abstract: A test device includes a first determination unit that determines based on setting information set in advance whether each screen element of a first screen is a non-test target and an execution unit that automatically executes an operation with respect to the screen element determined not to be a non-test target by the first determination unit, whereby it is possible to exclude a part of elements related to a screen from test targets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yu ADACHI, Haruto TANNO, Toshiyuki KURABAYASHI, Yu YOSHIMURA, Hiroyuki KIRINUKI
  • Publication number: 20220206828
    Abstract: An input value setting assistance device includes: an acquisition unit that displays a first screen including a plurality of input fields, and acquires an image of the first screen and a coordinate value regarding each of the input fields included is the first screen; and an assistance unit that displays a second screen including the image acquired by the acquisition unit regarding the first screen and setting fields for setting values for each of the input fields of the first screen and, when one of the setting fields is selected, displays a prescribed mark based on the coordinate value acquired by the acquisition unit for the input field related to the setting field. Thereby, the setting work of each of the input values prepared in advance for each of the input fields included is the screen can be effectively assisted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haruto TANNO, Hiroyuki KIRINUKI, Toshiyuki KURABAYASHI, Yu YOSHIMURA, Yu ADACHI
  • Publication number: 20220164523
    Abstract: A similar transition identification device includes: acquisition means for acquiring structure information of a screen related to a Web application and element information indicating constituent elements of the screen; identification means for identifying a similar transition representing screen transitions to other screens displaying contents similar to each other from among screen transitions to one or more other screens capable of being transitioned from the screen related to the Web application, the identification means identifying the similar transition based on the structure information and the element information acquired by the acquisition means; and creation means for executing one or more screen transitions selected from the similar transition identified by the identification means and creating specification information related to transitions between screens of the Web application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yu YOSHIMURA, Haruto TANNO, Yu ADACHI, Hiroyuki KIRINUKI, Toshiyuki KURABAYASHI